Disabling touchpad tapping in 9.10

[Derek Broughton]

O. Sinclair wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> O. Sinclair wrote:
>> 
>>> Hm - seems to work just fine so why not in Karmic I wonder? One thing
>>> though - can not disable tapping while typing, greyed out on mine.
>> 
>> Disabling tapping requires the xorg SHMConfig setting.  In the .fdi I
>> posted elsewhere in this thread it's:
>>  <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">true</merge>
>> 
> Got that file, settings look 100 like above (like your long quote) but
> no change in "disable tap while typing", greyed out it is. Any idea?
> 
> Admit I have not got my head around this whole fdi business yet.

Check out "tpconfig".  If you can use it to turn off tapping, or if it tells 
you you can't because of the SHMConfig setting, then at least we know where 
the problem is.  otoh, I used that just a couple of months ago, and now in 
Karmic (a) something uninstalled it and (b) after reinstall it says "Could 
not open PS/2 Port [/dev/psaux]" (and none of my /dev/input/... devices seem 
to work either), so maybe it's no use anymore.  Could be my knowledge is now 
out of date...
-- 
derek